Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern EnglandThe Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There have been many publications in the last quarter of a century on heterodoxy, particularly concentrating on the emergence of new sects in the mid-seventeenth century and the perceived onslaught on the clerical establishment by freethinkers and Deists in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century. However, the study of orthodoxy has languished far behind. This volume of complementary essays will be the first to embrace orthodox and heterodox treatments of scripture, and in the process question, challenge and redefine what historians mean when they use these terms. The collection will dispel the myth that a critical engagement with sacred texts was the preserve of radical figures: anti-scripturists, Quakers, Deists and freethinkers. For while the work of these people was significant, it formed only part of a far broader debate incorporating figures from across the theological spectrum engaging in a shared discourse. To explore this discourse, scholars have been drawn together from across the fields of history, theology and literary criticism. Areas of investigation include the inspiration, textual integrity and historicity of scriptural texts, the relative authority of canon and apocrypha, prophecy, the comparative merits of texts in different ancient languages, developing tools of critical scholarship, utopian and moral interpretations of scripture and how scholars read the Bible. Through a study of the interrelated themes of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, print culture and the public sphere, and the theory and practice of textual interpretation, our understanding of the histories of religion, theology, scholarship and reading in seventeenth-century England will be enhanced. |
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... commentary. According to a legend in the Babylonian Talmud (final redaction undertaken from late fifth century CE) Og uprooted a mountain to throw at the camp of Israel. God, however, sent ants which burrowed through the mountain above ...
... commentary. According to a legend in the Babylonian Talmud (final redaction undertaken from late fifth century CE) Og uprooted a mountain to throw at the camp of Israel. God, however, sent ants which burrowed through the mountain above ...
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... commentary on Genesis and more briefly on Exodus down to the revelation on Mount Sinai , knew the Book of the Watchers . Though dependent on parts of the Enochic corpus , Jubilees differs in several important respects . In Jubilees ...
... commentary on Genesis and more briefly on Exodus down to the revelation on Mount Sinai , knew the Book of the Watchers . Though dependent on parts of the Enochic corpus , Jubilees differs in several important respects . In Jubilees ...
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... commentary on Genesis 6:1–4. Drawing on Greek philosophy, Philo discussed the origins and destiny of the human soul, contrasting it with the flesh. Suggestively, his rendering of 'sons of God' as 'angels of God' is found in versions of ...
... commentary on Genesis 6:1–4. Drawing on Greek philosophy, Philo discussed the origins and destiny of the human soul, contrasting it with the flesh. Suggestively, his rendering of 'sons of God' as 'angels of God' is found in versions of ...
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... Commentary on the Gospel of John written at Alexandria Origen explained that the Hebrew name ' Jared ' also yielded the meaning ' going down ' . If it was legitimate to accept the Book of Enoch as sacred then it was in Jared's days that ...
... Commentary on the Gospel of John written at Alexandria Origen explained that the Hebrew name ' Jared ' also yielded the meaning ' going down ' . If it was legitimate to accept the Book of Enoch as sacred then it was in Jared's days that ...
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... commentary on The seven Catholic Epistles Bede (c.673– 735) had declared that the book was reckoned among the Apocrypha by the Church. Though he alluded to its extraordinary account of giants fathered by angels this was not a summary of ...
... commentary on The seven Catholic Epistles Bede (c.673– 735) had declared that the book was reckoned among the Apocrypha by the Church. Though he alluded to its extraordinary account of giants fathered by angels this was not a summary of ...
Contents
The Genesis Narrative in the Circle of Robert Hooke | |
Jephthahs Daughter in | |
English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the | |
Biblical Criticism and the | |
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